Weird url backslashing action...
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Hi guys this is more of a technical question. Has anyone seen this before in a url www.domain.com/\page\
i'm referring to the forward slash / followed by a backslash \ resulting in /\
Any idea why this happens?
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Hi guys, it looks like our developers have figured it out...
I don't know how it happened but for some reason it was doing it on this url: http://www.segafredo.com.au/Disclaimer/ Our site is run on Umbraco (ASP) but the shopping part is a custom plugin for SAP which doesn't play nice with friendly urls.
Somehow they solved that issue but created an other one... duplicate content :S
Ciao,
Immanuel.
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Hello Segafredo,
I have seen it before, but not very often because, as Chris said, it just isn't a good format for URLs. As to why it is happening, it would help if we know what kind of site you have. Is it on a CMS? Is it PHP, CFM, ASP...
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Hiya,
You should not use a back slash as it can't always be read and may be converter to a forward slash by some browsers and can end up with a 404 error. It's just not a format for URLs. For best practice I recommend sticking to the forward slash. Also I've not seen a URL with /\ or / but that's as I mentioned it's only going to cause you more of a headache in the long run.
Have you found it happen to you ?
Hope this helps.
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